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...headings in the Boston Globe are works of art, judging from the following which appear above an account of a prize-fight: "Punched into Slumber"; Science Toys Coyly with Bullheaded Grit...
...Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain, but only the good begining of something which they intend to make better. Harvard is still growing. It has a future as well as a past, and the most remarkable things about its life to-day is the pluck, the true grit, with which its sons face the music of the present...
...many a day. It is believed that "Bob" Cook will look after their training, and ex-Captain John Rogers will also render valuable assistance. There is much valuable material this year in the freshman class, and in the recent rushes they showed that there was plenty of grit and muscle. The members do not propose to take a "back seat" if they can help it. Many of them already give promise of being exceptionally good oarsmen, and they are willing to work. They have already and intend in the future to practice running at "hare and hounds," and will exercise...
...happened to cause such a complete inequality between the two crews. The trouble soon became apparent. No. 3, in his efforts to secure a good start, had unshipped his seat and was doing his best to row on the slides. Any one who has rowed can realize what true grit and determination Sanford must have had to have rowed out the two miles, and all praise is due to such a plucky man. On the other hand it is with some regret that we reflect that if he had stopped rowing and held up his hand at the moment when...
Harvard has grit and enterprise. She has athletic bodies as well as vigorous brains, and Boston has money enough to back her favorite boys and give them every assistance needed. Let Captain Keyes go ahead and begin to train his crew at once, let him pick his men for coolness and endurance, and then let him say what he wants in order to make a winning crew, and the people will see to it that every aid shall be furnished...